TEAM PEETA

Who Should Katniss choose?

Team Peeta vs Team Gale

You’re insecure 
Don’t know what for 
You’re turning heads 
When you walk through the door 
Don’t need make up 
To cover up 
Being the way that you are is enough 
Everyone else in the room can see it 
Everyone else but you

Baby you light up my world like nobody else 
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed 
But when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell 
You don’t know
You don’t know you’re beautiful 

If only you saw what I can see 
You’ll understand why I want you so desperately 
Right now I’m looking at you and I can’t believe 
You don’t know 
You don’t know you’re beautiful 
And that’s what makes you beautiful

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 (My thoughts of what Peeta might be thinking about Katniss)

 So our task was to make up our mind about which of the both lover-candidates would match the best with Katniss, if it was on us to decide. Reading the first book of the trilogy I made a clear decision: 

TEAM PEETA!

And here’s why

Peeta makes Katniss a real girl. Before she met him in the games, she was just an emancipated chick that hunted illegally in the woods to feed her family and does business on a black market with her best friend, who’s male, Gale. Her actions made her look like a boyish girl to the ones that didn’t know her better. The baker son’s confession of love makes her look like a likable, female and somewhat vulnerable woman.

He seems to see what others overlooked all the time: the unmeant hidden beauty of her being and her actions. Seems like he’s the only one who noticed Katniss as who she really is: a girl.

His confession is taking influence on Katniss development by helping her to gain more self-confidence in what she is and what she is able to do. Peeta has never given up on his love for ‘the girl on fire’ and in that way he teaches her not to give up on what she wants to have back again: her old life and her family, mainly her sister, in District 12.

What Katniss really does learn from him is to not accept anything that is done to you or the people you love, even to people that you don’t know, if it’s morally not right, unfair, terrible or in any way bad for anyone (or a whole population). With his saying that he doesn’t want to be just a piece in Panems Games, he sets fire to Katniss injustice-thoughts about the Capitols government and the Hunger Games. Even if she does not understand the real meaning of the words in the beginnig, she does when she becomes aware of the Gamemaker’s cruelty more than ever at Rue’s death. Kids ar not destined for being killed just for peoples entertainment and Katniss wants this thing to be over forever so she sets a sign, influenced by Peetas quote, to show that she’s not accepting what the government is doing namely punishing kids for things which happened long before they were even born.

Peeta is very important for Katniss because he’s the only person from District 12 in the arena, the only one who reminds her of home.

Both have a relation to each other from the beginning on, at the time they are chosen at the reaping: Peeta of course because he is in love with this girl, Katniss because she owes her and her families lifes to him, because of the fact that Peeta gave her bread when she was about to starve. He gave her new hope when nobody else was able to, being in charge of her sight of the dandelion who brought new life to the little girl.

He does what Gale never will be able to do in that kind of way: he saves her life (not only once) in the arena, protecting the girl he loves by building an ally with the Careers, knowing she would hate him for doing that. He does it for making sure that none of the ones being part of the ally will kill Katniss and that he will be there to protect her from them when it comes to a fight.

While, at the beginning, Katniss is feeling nothing but to be in Peeta’s debt, her feelings change over time. She begins to trust him while they are living together in the Capitol, feels betrayed when he is bulding an ally with the careers in the arena, what seems that there has been some kind of friendship between them. Than she becomes aware that she can win with him as a team, when the rule change is announced. The fact that she really cares about Peetas health when she finds him covered and injured in the woods shows that she has some kind of feelings for him, but she does not know what kind of herself. Risking her own life by going to the feast at the cornucopia to get the medicine for him, it becomes apparent that there is a deeper relation between the ‘star-crossed lovers’ than Katniss would ever admit.

In my opinion Katniss should choose Peeta because he’s the one she could always count on in her life. He is there for her all the time in the arena, keeping her grounded. Even if she has never payed attention to him until the reaping, he still sticks by her whatever horror they have to face.

For though there are so much reasons for Katniss to choose Gale (knows her for years, takes care of her family while she’s away, hunts with her in the woods,…), Peeta is the one who’s been there when nobody else was, taking care of HER. So she should keep Gale as best friend or a kind of brother and take the bakers son as boyfriend. 

I'm very interested in hearing your opinion of who Katniss should choose and why. Just leave your comment! :-)

Thats what Peeta could say: 

"Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book, just turn the page."
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